Speech First, another advocacy group legally challenging efforts to shut down speech, said last week it helped cause the University of Houston to change its harassment policy that allegedly allowed the school to punish students for off-campus speech.
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Speech First argued in the University of Houston lawsuit, filed Feb. 16 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, that the policy's inclusion of "negative stereotyping" and "denigrating jokes" on and off campus – including social media — amounted to a ban on constitutionally protected speech.
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